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I assume there are people out there in the world who actually find equations like this comprehensible? https://imgur.com/O2BEyjp https://imgur.com/O2BEyjp One
by zmmmmm 4y ago
I assume there are people out there in the world who actually find equations like this comprehensible?
https://imgur.com/O2BEyjp https://imgur.com/O2BEyjp
One of my main barriers to reading and learning from academic literature in this space is that while I understand all the words perfectly well, invariably I hit something like this which might as well be in chinese characters to me.
- antishatter 4y agoYou get used to it
- bglazer 4y agoUnfortunately, these equations only started making intuitive sense for me once I saw them repeated many times, in different contexts. The key was being able to recognize patterns and being able to roughly predict the contents of the equation based on its structure. For example, here the equation begins with the L(x_i, x_j, phi) which looks intimidating but it’s a very standard way of saying “likelihood” with mathematical notation. Then, you might notice that the equation has two “indicator” functions (the strange looking 1’s). Again, weird but it can be translated to an if else statement. Then, it’s easy to predict that one will have an = sign and the other a =/=. All that to say that it’s painful for a bit to parse every symbol, but it gets easier to recognize the semantics after you’ve done it for similar cases.